"Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind" : contemporary planning in New York City /

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The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in this book, the author aims to use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment strategies and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larson, Scott, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013
Colección:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Temas:
Moses, Robert, > 1888-1981.
Bloomberg, Michael.
Jacobs, Jane, > 1916-2006.
City planning > New York (State) > New York.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning.
New York (State) > New York.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jacobs vs. Moses : a fight for the city's soul
  • The "patron saint" and the "git'r done man"
  • The Bloomberg practice
  • Calls for a new Moses
  • Planning and the narrative of threat
  • The armature for development
  • Ideas that converge
  • Ideas that travel
  • Design as civic virtue
  • Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind.

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